Sink-strainer.



No. 852,233. PATENTED APR. so, 1907. N.LYKE.

SINK STRAINER.

APPLIOATION FILED MAB. 8.1906.

WITNESSES: MZMIZZZZ L JNI ENTOR.

A TTORNE Y5 ms NORRIS PETERS co., WASHINGTON, n. c,

UNITED sTAtr sra rENT OFFICE.

LYKE, or JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK.

SINK-STRAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed March 8, 1906. Serial No. 304.983.

NATHANIEL No. 852,233. Patented April 30, 1907.

To all whom it may COW/087%: portion are binder strips 15, embracing both Be it known that I, NATHANIEL LYKE, a the upper edges of the body portion and the citizen of the United States, residing at Hotel I upper ends of the corner binding members and bent around the form bindings to the The depending pormg sides of the body, corners of the same, to body at the corners.

tions 11 are strengthened and supported by my own, I have hereto affixed my signature 1n the presence of two witnesses:

l ATHANIEL LYKE.

I folding the edges over upon themselves as I l/Vitnesses: at 14. I W. B. W001),

Bearing over the upper edges of the body I L. D. POWERS.

Everett, Jamestown, in the county of Chau- I 1243, all the parts being firmly secured by 5 5 5 tauqua and State of New York, have invent- I soldering or otherwise. A lift ring 16 is ated a new and useful Sink-Strainer, of which I tached to one end of the device. the following is a specification. I It will be noted that a very strong com- This invention relates to removable strain I pact and durable device is produced, which ers employed in sinks and similar structures 1s firmly supported by the end frames and for retaining the coarser particles of mate- I the bottom portionmaintained spaced above rial and permitting the liquids only to pass the structure on which the device rests, as through, and has for its object to improve for instance the bottom of the sink in which the construction and increase the elllcicncy it is disposed, to provide for adequate drainand utility of devices of this character. age and prevent the clogging of the body. With this and other objects in view which The inclined sides and the rounded bottom will appear as the nature of the invention is of the body portion renders the device easily better understood, the invention consists in cleaned, and effectually prevents the parti certain novel features of construct-ion as cles retained therein from lodging against the hereafter fully described and claimed. interior of the body. In the accompanying drawings forming a The device may be constructed of any size part of this specification and in which correto correspond to the sink or other receptacle spending parts are denoted by like designatin which it is employed. ing characters, is illustrated the preferred Vhat I claim iszform of the embodiment of the invention ca- 1. A strainer having a body of perforated pable of carrying the same into practical opmaterial and supported. at the ends by eration. frames, each frame formed from a single Figure 1 is a perspective view of the impiece of sheet metal extending below the proved device. Fig. 2 is a perspective view I body and having integral branches bent of one of the end framesfrom the inside. around the corners of the same, the extended Fig. 3 is a view of one of the blanks from. portions being reinforced by bending the whici the end frames are formed. metal at the edge upon itself.

he improved device comprises a body 10 2. A strainer having a body of perforated of foraminous material, prefer ably peilorated material and supported at the ends by metal, or which may be of wire screen mate frames, each frame formed from a single 8 5 rial, of relatively fine mesh. piece of sheet metal extending below the The body portion is preferably formed I body and having integral branches bent with flaring sides and rounded at the bottom, I around the corners of the same, the extended and. with the-ends likewise of perforated ma- I portions being reinforced by bending the terial. The body thus constructed is supl metal at the edges upon itself, and binding 0 .o ported at the ends by frames, each formed l strips of sheet metal folded longitudinally from a single sheet of metal extending at 11 upon themselves and bearing over the upper below the bottom of the body and with I edges of the body and the upper ends of the branches 12l3 extending therefrom and bent corner supporting branches. flaring outwardly in conformity to the flar- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 5 

